Quantifying Myself with Tableau
One of the dangers of getting older, enjoying technology or writing a book is becoming sedentary. In December of last year, I realized that my lifestyle was simply not healthy. I wasn’t eating properly or exercising enough. My weight was 182 pounds (well over my ideal of 155). I decided to use the time I […]
Tableau via PowerShell, Part 2: Saving Changes
This is part 2 of my mini-series on exploring Tableau workbooks with PowerShell. If you missed it, you should read Part 1: Opening Workbooks, before continuing. Welcome back! Last time I showed you how to open a Tableau workbook (TWB or TWBX) in PowerShell so you could start exploring the raw XML. Today I’ll show […]
Understanding Layout Containers in Tableau
New and old Tableau users alike struggle with grasping Tableau’s concept of Layout Containers. I put together this exercise last week for a recent training course to help explain what is going on behind the scenes. Layout Containers in Tableau 8 force spatial relationships between dashboard components. Conceptually, they allow the dashboard designer to format […]
Tableau via PowerShell, Part 1: Opening Workbooks
In this mini-series I’m going to show you some cookbook style examples for using PowerShell to explore your Tableau workbooks. Follow along, this is going to be fun! Tableau workbooks (TWB files) are just XML files. Packaged workbooks (TWBX files) are just ZIP files that contain a TWB and various assets, like data extracts for […]
20-Minute Tableau Viz: Legal Medical Marijuana
I saw an interesting post and data set this morning from ProCon.org. The information was in tabular form, so I copied it and extracted the data into Tableau. 20 minutes later, I had a fully-interactive dashboard that presented the information relevant to me in a map. The map displays the year medical marijuana was legalized […]
jKal: Yet another jQuery datepicker plugin
jKal is a simple jQuery based datepicker plugin. I built this for a project with a very specific need, and felt it worked well enough that it might be of benefit to others. jKal Screenshot jKal works best when the date chosen does not have to go forwards or backwards more than a few […]
Proper Care and Feeding of Vertica (Part One)
(This is a multi-part series about the proper care & feeding of a Vertica cluster. There’s simply too much content for one post, so I’ll be splitting this up into a three-part series. Check back in a few days for the next installment.) Vertica is a very unique database platform, with a unique set of […]
Tableau Table Calculations and Reference Lines: Extending the Default Panes
Some fun Table Calculation questions came in this week. With four hours in the air heading home to New York from Portland, OR, I thought I’d quickly add these to the learning library. Here’s the first – I’ll put up another post with the second, which is a great extension on our Calendar Blog Post. […]
Tableau Online – Cloud-Based Tableau Server Hosting Now Available
Tableau Server is officially online. Users can now take advantage of their data from virtually anywhere with Tableau Online, a hosted (SaaS) version of Tableau Server. The benefits of a comprehensive, cloud-based business intelligence platform in Tableau Online are massive: Greater Access to Tableau Server With Tableau Online, you can perform full-scale data visualization from […]
InterWorks Named Silver Sponsor for HP Vertica Big Data Conference
InterWorks was recently named a Silver Sponsor for the inaugural HP Vertica Big Data Conference. The conference will address current challenges, upcoming trends and Vertica success stories in the Big Data Analytics field. Silver Sponsorship cements InterWorks’ status as one of HP Vertica’s most prominent solution partners. Much of InterWorks’ Business Intelligence Team and leadership […]